WSUMC Parsonage

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4-story Neo-Grec parish house and parsonage for the adjoining Methodist church, completed in 1879. Designed by Charles Hadden, who also designed the church building. It is clad in red brick with three bays of varicolored horizontals and lintels, which are set on brackets. There is an arched and pedimented hood over the entrance door. The ironwork of stoop and areaway is the original, combining wrought iron framing with cast iron rosettes. The cornice, carried on grooved brackets, has intermediate toothlike corbel forms producing a sparkle of light and shade.

The building was remodeled in the Eighteen-nineties and opened in 1897 as a combined parsonage and church house, equipped with sleeping quarters, recreation facilities, dining room, library, and schoolroom. It was renovated again in 1939.